Building upon work done in Landscapes of Attachment, my 2018 M.Arch Thesis, Split House Again started as a representational project and grew into something a little deeper. My primary goal was to explore some new or different approaches to an academic or artistic architectural representation by combining various digital tools or techniques. I also wanted to explore using Radiance, the physically-accurate rendering software I learned in my career as a daylighting consultant, to create or evocative images.
As I began working on the project, I found that six years on, I had fundamentally different questions about found that my experience as a daylighting consultant had also changed how I look at buildings. When I was working on Lanscapes of Attachment in 2018, I thought of the massing operations in that project purely from the exterior, but as a daylighting consultant, I learned to approach buildings very much from the inside out. So when I started this project, using tools (like Radiance) that are particularly effective at representing the distribution of light in interiors, I wanted to explore what the cutting, shifting, or rearrangement interventions in Lanscapes of Attachment did to the interiors of the resulting structures.
